Re: 1939 Chrysler Six Paint Code

Posted by HH56 On 2021/1/16 11:26:50

In my opinion that is going to be a very hard challenge. Packard had many blue colors and then some shade differences visible close up on some of the blues that might look about the same from a distance. Even the more or less standard Packard Blue available over many years had subtle differences. Without at least knowing what year might have been chosen it will be hard to narrow down an exact guess. Fading over the years could also make a paint made by code number be different than what has been on the car and exposed to the elements. Much better for touch ups would be to find a small painted item that could be removed and taken to a paint store to have a matching paint made up.

While computer displays and scanned items can have vast differences between them to the point it is difficult to get a decent comparison, some paint chip sheets are available on this site in the literature archive which you can bring up from the link in the main menu to the left of the page. You can also go to the PAC club sitehttps://www.packardclub.org and view some of the same plus a few different paint chip sheets just to get an idea of what was available. At the PAC site, from the main menu under the Library category select Reference to bring up the page which will let you select chip sheets by year.